brachylogy
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin brachylogia from Ancient Greek βραχυλογία (brakhulogía), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “speech”), equivalent to brachy- + -logy; compare brachyology.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbrachylogy (countable and uncountable, plural brachylogies)
- Concise speech; laconism.
- (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"
Hyponyms
edit- (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis
Translations
editconcise speech
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See also
editFurther reading
edit- “brachylogy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “brachylogy, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “brachylogy, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 653, column 1.
- “brachylogy, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “brachylogy, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 653, column 1.
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